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Marvelous Filigree Lorgnette
Located in McLean, VA
This 18 Kt. yellow gold finely crafted piece houses a pair of spectacles. A wonderful conversation
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Victorian Antique Spectacles
Materials
18k Gold
Excellent Quality 19th Century Oil Painting of a Pretty Woman
Located in Bridgeport, CT
spectacles. Very sharp, with vibrant colors. Unsigned.
Sight size 16.5" x 20.5".
Category
Mid-19th Century European Antique Spectacles
Original Art Nouveau Poster - Paris In London 1902 Imre Kiralfy - GS&W Railway
Located in London, GB
-1919) was a renowned theatrical performer and producer who created music and dance spectacles in
Category
Early 1900s Antique Spectacles
Materials
Paper
Het Klokhuis te Leeuwarden {..].
By Rienk Jelgerhuis
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
perspective and also invented special spectacles for drawing.
Category
1760s Antique Spectacles
Materials
Etching
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De Batavier aan Willem de Geweldenaar.
By Rienk Jelgerhuis
Located in Zeeland, Noord-Brabant
invented special spectacles for drawing.
Category
1780s Antique Spectacles
Materials
Mezzotint
Interior of the Colosseum in Rome, excavated in 1813 and reconstructed in 1814
By Luigi Rossini
Located in New York, NY
, showing the maze beneath the floor level where animals and gladiators waited before the spectacles
Category
1820s Realist Antique Spectacles
Materials
Etching
Romney
s Self Portrait by Adrian Lamb
By Adrian Lamb
Located in Woodbury, CT
spectacles, though he had been in the habit of using eye glasses for many years.
Measures: 28 1/2" W x 33
Category
1920s American Antique Spectacles
Placid Bronze Sculpture of a Sitting Ox by Lambertus Zijl, 1916
By Lambertus Zijl
Located in Amstelveen, NL
work as ‘Impressionistic’ since the surfaces of his sculptures are true spectacles of light.
Category
1910s Dutch Art Nouveau Antique Spectacles
Materials
Bronze
Figure: Female Pedlar, Possibly Peg Woffington, Bow Porcelain, circa 1758
By Bow Porcelain
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
right arm displaying peddler’s wares including needle cards, spectacles, buckles and scissors, and
Category
Late 18th Century English Neoclassical Antique Spectacles
Materials
Porcelain
Lifesize Italian Marble Bust of a Roman Warrior, circa 1750
Located in Dallas, TX
elsewhere in Italy, in the 15th century for use in jousts and tournaments, civic and religious spectacles
Category
18th Century Italian Antique Spectacles
Materials
Marble
Figurial 1800s Spectacles Trade Sign
Located in Peekskill, NY
This is the real thing and not a remake. Optometrist figural eyeglasses trade sign. Great trade sign with gilt painted bronze nose piece and loops for hanging. Bevel glass lenses are...
Category
Late 19th Century American Industrial Antique Spectacles
Materials
Glass
Antique Victorian Silver Spectacles Case, Glasses Case
Located in NEWARK, GB
A beautiful Victorian sterling silver spectacle case.
Heavy and solid sterling silver, it has hexagonal cut corners and fine engraving to the lid.
Scrolling foliate surrounds the l...
Category
19th Century Unknown Victorian Antique Spectacles
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Art Deco Rare 1920 Platinum Diamond 0.22 Carat Retractable 1.75 Inch Spectacles
Located in New York, NY
Spectacles, measuring 1 3/4 inches x 2 1/2 inches when closed
weighing 16.23 pennyweight.
Step back in time
Category
1920s French Art Deco Antique Spectacles
Materials
Diamond, Platinum
Art Deco 1920 Platinum and Diamond 0.22 Carat Retractable 1.75 Inch Spectacles
Located in New York, NY
Antique retractable spectacles with 10 diamonds weighing 0.22 carat
Engraved platinum spectacles
Category
1920s French Art Deco Antique Spectacles
Materials
Diamond, Platinum
J. Sydney Willis Hodges (1829-1900) - 1876 Oil, Portrait of George Pridham
Located in Corsham, GB
Hodges (1829-1900). Pridham holds a pair of spectacles in his hand, a symbol of intelligence. Inscribed
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Spectacles
Materials
Oil
Framed Late 19th Century Oil - Solemn Matron
Located in Corsham, GB
A true to character oil portrait of a late 19th century matron in cylindrical spectacles and a
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Spectacles
Materials
Oil
ART NOVEAU Gold Diamond Ruby Sapphire Opera Glasses
Located in New York City, NY
Rare and very unusual Art Nouveau 14K gold, ruby, diamond and sapphire opera spectacles/glasses
Category
Late 19th Century American Art Nouveau Antique Spectacles
Materials
Diamond, Sapphire, Ruby, 14k Gold
c.1880 Pair of French Mahogany Empire Style Nightstands
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
mounts and marble tops. Notice the small shelf on top for one's spectacles, watch, or jewelry. Please
Category
19th Century French Antique Spectacles
Materials
Mahogany
c.1890 French Walnut Rococo Nightstand
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
, a drawer, and a wonderful 2-shelf pediment(one for your pocket-watch, the other for your spectacles
Category
19th Century French Antique Spectacles
Materials
Marble
18th Century Monochrome Oil Paintings on Canvas Large Antique Landscapes, Two
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
beautiful paintings even more spectacles.
Category
1780s Italian Antique Spectacles
Materials
Canvas
19th Century "Wilcox" Eyeglasses with Solid 14k Gold Frames
Original Case
Located in Norwalk, CT
These exceptional antique spectacles feature solid 14K yellow gold wire-rim frames and a subtly
Category
19th Century American Antique Spectacles
Materials
Gold
Early 19th Century Oil Portrait of a Bespectacled New England Gentleman
Located in Peabody, MA
insurance firm in Hartford, CT. It is fairly rare to come across such a youthful male wearing spectacles in
Category
Early 19th Century North American American Classical Antique Spectacles
Materials
Paint
Cartier Paris Art Deco Black Lacquer Coral Diamond Binoculars
By Cartier
Located in Greenwich, CT
-kind spectacles. Trimmed with coral beads topped with collet set diamonds, this signed Cartier pair of
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Antique Spectacles
Materials
Diamond
Aaron Burr/Alexander Hamilton Duel---mixed media, limited edition
Located in Chesterfield, MI
the spectacles that Alexander Hamilton carried on the day he was fatally wounded. This mixed media
Category
Early 1800s Photorealist Antique Spectacles
Materials
Mixed Media
Rudland - Early 20th Century Watercolour, Bespectacled Gentleman
Located in Corsham, GB
spectacles. He has neatly swept back hair and wears a suit and shirt. The artist has captured much
Category
Early 20th Century Antique Spectacles
Materials
Watercolor
c. 1935 Oil - Early Victorian Gentleman
Located in Corsham, GB
. He is holding a pair of spectacles in his lap. The painting is unsigned and presented in a handsome
Category
Early 20th Century Antique Spectacles
Materials
Oil
Original Vintage Art Nouveau Advertising Poster for a Furniture Exhibition, 1898
By Hugo van der Woude
Located in London, GB
pottery ceramic work on display through her spectacles. Design by Van der Woude (d. 1913), a highly
Category
19th Century German Art Nouveau Antique Spectacles
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Jacques Callot, Entry of the Prince of Pfaltzbourg, Nancy Court Spectacle, 1627
By Jacques Callot
Located in Firenze, IT
most dazzling court spectacles of the early seventeenth century, combining tournament, allegory, and
Category
17th Century Baroque Antique Spectacles
Materials
Paper, Engraving
1820s-1830s Antique French Mother of Pearl Gold Lorgnette
Located in Litchfield, CT
mechanism to be used alone as a quizzer or separately as spectacles. This wonderful piece of history is
Category
Mid-19th Century French Georgian Antique Spectacles
Materials
18k Gold
19th Century English Small Wood Pocket Travel Compass Card with 16 Winds
Located in Milan, IT
spectacles: throwing magnetized arrows like dice, they indicated south like a magic, amazing the public.
Category
19th Century Antique Spectacles
Materials
Wood
1917s Brass Nautical Pocket Compass Antique Marine Navigation Instrument
Located in Milan, IT
Chinese people used magnetic fields also for spectacles: throwing magnetized arrows like dice, they
Category
1910s Antique Spectacles
Materials
Brass
Antique French Mother of Pearl and Gold Lorgnette, circa 1820s-1830s
Located in Litchfield, CT
be used alone as a quizzer or separately as spectacles. This wonderful piece of history is playful
Category
Mid-19th Century French Georgian Antique Spectacles
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl
Brass and Leather Telescope, Mid-19th Century
Located in Milan, IT
spectacles and microscopes, before becoming manufacturer of Brewster’s Patent Kaleidoscope in 1817. In 1826
Category
1860s British Antique Spectacles
Materials
Brass
Georgian III Mahogany Thermometer by John Dollond
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
manufacture of bifocal spectacles in 1781. Dollond & Co merged with Aitchison & Co in 1927 to form Dollond
Category
1790s English Antique Spectacles
Materials
Mahogany
Rare, Austro Hungarian, 18 Karat Yellow Gold Chatelaine Chain
Located in Brisbane City, QLD
, such as scissors, a vinaigrette, spectacles or even a thimble case. The purpose was so that the lady of
Category
19th Century Slovak Victorian Antique Spectacles
Materials
Gold, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
DIMINUTIVE OPTOMETRIST TRADE SIGN, HAND-BLOWN, COLORED GLASS
Located in York County, PA
early America. A man would likely be jeweler, clock-maker, and the maker of spectacles. Figural trade
Category
19th Century American Antique Spectacles
Materials
Metal
Early 20th Century Opticians Trade Sign
Located in London, GB
early 20th Century French opticians trade sign. In the form of a pair of spectacles, hand crafted from
Category
1920s French Early Victorian Antique Spectacles
Materials
Brass
An early 20th century cast metal and glass opticians trade sign.
Located in London, GB
and glass opticians trade sign, in the form of a quirky pair of spectacles. Made from hand forged cast
Category
1910s French Victorian Antique Spectacles
Materials
Iron
Reduced-size inscription as on the famous Roman epitaph of the Coliseum
Located in Bruxelles, BE
sand on which the spectacles would be performed.
The Latin also contains a few examples of official
Category
Early 19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Spectacles
Materials
Stone
1917s Prismatic Magnetic Pocket Compass Signed F-L Antique Marine Navigation
Located in Milan, IT
Chinese people used magnetic fields also for spectacles: throwing magnetized arrows like dice, they
Category
1910s Antique Spectacles
Materials
Brass
Antique Platinum Art Deco Lorgnette Folding Eye Glasses with Lariat Chain
Located in London, GB
magnifying glass.
Accompanying these unique folding spectacles is a matching platinum lariat chain measuring
Category
Early 20th Century European Art Deco Antique Spectacles
Materials
Platinum
1907s Pocket Magnetic Crome Plated Brass Compass Antique Scientific Instrument
Located in Milan, IT
for the Chinese people). The Chinese people used magnetic fields also for spectacles: throwing
Category
Early 1900s Antique Spectacles
Materials
Brass
Gold and Enamel Lorgnette with Concealed Watch
Located in New Orleans, LA
the lorgnette causes the mechanism to engage and the spectacles to emerge from the side. Ingeniously
Category
19th Century Unknown Victorian Antique Spectacles
Materials
Diamond, Enamel
1918s Barke
s Magnetic Nautical Pocket Compass Antique Marine Navigation Device
Located in Milan, IT
magnetic fields also for spectacles: throwing magnetized arrows like dice, they indicated south like a
Category
1910s Antique Spectacles
Materials
Brass
1918s Barke
s Magnetic Nautical Pocket Compass Antique Marine Navigation Device
Located in Milan, IT
magnetic fields also for spectacles: throwing magnetized arrows like dice, they indicated south like a
Category
1910s Antique Spectacles
Materials
Brass
Fossil Seabed of Crinoidea Scyphocrinites Elegans
Located in Scorton, GB
spectacles.
Crinoidea species thrive in modern-day oceans as a unique interplay between the botanical and
Category
15th Century and Earlier North African Prehistoric Antique Spectacles
Materials
Limestone
Count Bruhl
s Tailor on a Goat Porcelain Figure by Meissen
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in New Orleans, LA
tricorn hat, colorful jacket and slightly askew spectacles, to the shears hanging from the goat’s horn
Category
19th Century German Other Antique Spectacles
Materials
Porcelain
Antique French Oil on Board Painting, Arrival at the Auberge, 19th Century
By Maurice Blum
Located in Dallas, TX
golden walking cane behind his back as he uses a lorgnette (spectacles held up to the viewer’s face by a
Category
19th Century French Antique Spectacles
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
19th Century Russian Silver
Enamel Cigarette Case, by Ovchinnikov, circa 1866
By Pavel Ovchinnikov
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
, the cigarette case has been lined with velvet, later converted into a spectacles case, comes in a red
Category
19th Century Russian Antique Spectacles
Materials
Silver, Enamel
“Des Bateaux Au Port” by Pierre de Belay
By "Pierre ""de"" Belay"
Located in Sheffield, MA
the magazine Harlequin, periodical of arts and spectacles, particularly the column Pairs sups and
Category
Early 20th Century French Antique Spectacles
Materials
Canvas
1800 Colosseum Landscape Realist in Rome Engraving Luigi Rossini on Paper
By Luigi Rossini
Located in Roma, IT
gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles (for only a short time as the hypogeum was
Category
19th Century Realist Antique Spectacles
Materials
Engraving
Antique Brass Extending Naval Telescope circa 1880 Bisley
Located in London, GB
optician to King George III and the Duke of York. In 1781, Peter Dollond made bifocal spectacles.
At
Category
19th Century English Antique Spectacles
"Grandparent
s Favorite" Antique Interior Scene Painting by Emmanuel Costa
By Emmanuel Costa 1
Located in Shippensburg, PA
eyes. He holds out a newspaper for her to test the spectacles in action. There is a precious
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Romantic Antique Spectacles
Materials
Canvas
English Still-Life Antique Painting of Fruits
Flowers by W.E.D. Stuart ca.1853
Located in Shippensburg, PA
-dressed gentleman in spectacles on the high-polish portion that would generally be monogrammed on a ewer
Category
19th Century English Antique Spectacles
Materials
Canvas, Paint
"The Old Beggar"
1883
American Antique Oil Painting by Frank Penfold
By Frank Crawford Penfold
Located in Shippensburg, PA
building walls, he is completely focused through his thin spectacles as he pulls a needle with thread
Category
19th Century American Barbizon School Antique Spectacles
Materials
Canvas, Paint
1912 Silk Campaign Kerchief Made to Promote Teddy Roosevelt
Located in York County, PA
exists that includes large depictions of T.R.'s wire rimmed spectacles and toothy grin, flanking the
Category
1910s Antique Spectacles
Robert Walker Macbeth RA ROI RWS, Far From The Madding Crowd
Located in Cheltenham, GB
, charm. It’s fair to say that, later in life, his subjects were viewed through the rose-tinted spectacles
Category
1880s Victorian Antique Spectacles
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Find a variety of antique spectacles available on 1stDibs. The range of distinct antique spectacles — often made from metal, brass and wood — can elevate any home. Antique spectacles have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. neoclassical, Victorian and Art Nouveau antique spectacles are consistently popular styles. Many antique spectacles are appealing in their simplicity, but Auguste Edouart, Bow Porcelain and Dollond, London produced popular antique spectacles that are worth a look.
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